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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Having a "delightful" Mother's Day weekend

Mother's Day weekend this year falls within the same week as my husband's birthday(May 11) and the same day as my youngest daughter's birthday. All of our family members (other than my mom) are in the Midwest and we won't see them this weekend, but the Fed Ex truck has made several stops with gifts for Mom, me and my husband. We will talk to everyone via phone at some point tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I've kept myself busy in my scrap room. We have a newly licensed driver in the family, so I thought that deserved a layout:

The papers are from Authentique's "Dapper" and "Rustic" collections. The road trip icons were cut with my Silhouette Cameo. The sketch is from the Citrus Twist Kits blog.

All the National Scrapbooking Day challenges floating around were great inspiration, and I've completed 14 layouts so far in May. I just couldn't help but recognize the huge chocolate dipped strawberries that my oldest daughter senr:

I used a sketch by Rochelle Spears and the April kit from Citrus Twist Kits. (Unfortunately it looks crooked in the photo, although it isn't in real life)

About Me

For those of you who don't "know" me, I'm an avid scrapbooker as well as a wife, mother of four, grandmother of nine (and counting!), and retired newspaper writer and public relations professional. I'm a native Illinois girl but moved to Colorado in November 2015 with my husband of 33 years, Mike, and my mother.
I scrapbook because I feel it's important to chronicle my family's daily lives as well as the "big events", and also as a form of artistic expression.
Our four children all are married with families, careers, mortgages and lives of their own. They're all back in the Midwest and we don't get to see each other as much as we would like, so photos and videos are important ways to share events in each others' lives.